Not able to launch Organizer after installing Adobe Photoshop Elements

Welcome to this this blog on Adobe Photoshop Elements and following article can be helpful to you, if you are not able to launch Organizer after installation of Adobe Photoshop Elements on your computer. This can be helpful, so try steps mentioned below - 

(Below mentioned steps are for version 9 of Adobe Photoshop Elements, but can be tried for other versions by replacing version number in paths mentioned below)

Win:

1. Navigate to location 'C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Elements Organizer\9.0 and delete/rename the 9.0 folder.

2: Go to 'C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Elements Organizer\Catalogs‘ folder and rename the Catalogs folder.

3: Launch EO. It will throw ‘No catalog found’ error. Create a new catalog and click on ‘OK’. Now EO launches with first launch scenario.

MAC:

1: Go to /users/labuser/library/application support/adobe/elements organizer and rename or delete ’9.0’ folder.

2. Rename or delete the ‘catalog’ folder.

3: Launch EO.

Why do we get 'sweatPea error' in Adobe Photoshop Elements

This error occurs when there are some issues with Plugins on the system. When EO is launching it tries to fetch the plugins from two locations (for win7):

1.    C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Elements 10 Organizer\Plug-Ins

2.    C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\Elements 10

*** Version in above paths will change to PSE version installed on your computer.

As told already that this error occurs when there are some issues with Plugins. The issues can be-

1.    Plugins are not present at their recommended locations.

2.    Some plugins may be missing (may be removed by anti-virus or similar softwares).

3.    Plugins gets corrupted.

To avoid getting this error message-

>> Uninstall PSE. Now close any anti-virus (or similar software) and re-install PSE.

Facing any problem with installation of Adobe Photoshop Elements

Many times Adobe Forums see problems on installation of Adobe Photoshop Elements. There can be various reasons for that and more information around the error problem can be helpful in troubleshooting. But here we just want to share a good link, which has solved many of the installation problems of Adobe Photoshop Elements -

http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop-elements/kb/troubleshoot-installation-photoshop-elements-premiere.html#main_Error__Below_mentioned_applications_have_failed_to_install__Shared_technologies

Are you confused with number of DVDs you get with pack of Adobe Photoshop Elements?

Many times, folks ask me about the DVDs they get on buying a licensed copy of Adobe Photoshop Elements. Recently the frequency of questions has raised significantly after launch of Adobe Photoshop Elements 10.0 and we thought of sharing few basic things about Software Pack of Adobe Photoshop Elements.

"Adobe Air: This installation of the application is damaged, try re-installing or contacting the publisher for assistance" - How to resolve this problem of Elements Inspiration Browser

If you are facing above mentioned error while an attempt to see tutorials in Adobe Elements Inspiration Browser or there is something related to installation of Elements Inspiration Browser. then follow below mentioned steps to resolve this -

Installation for Adobe Photoshop Elements rolls back after some time (e.g.- 97%)

There could be following 4 different reasons why installation of Adobe Photoshop Elements may rollback :

1.       Conflicting processes running.  

Resolution:  Close all the Adobe applications inside Task Manager. Ensure that no Adobe process is running while installing the software on your machine.

2.       Updater API failure.

Resolution :- Create an empty folder say “abc” inside “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\AAMUpdaterInventory\1.0\” location

3.       Failure in AFL calls                                          

Resolution :- Make sure that you do not have any other Adobe application installed on this machine. If none, then delete cache.db file inside this location “C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe PCD\cache\”

4.       Installation Location                                      

Resolution:- Place the installer at say “C:\PSE9\” folder location and then try to install again.